About This Role
This role sits at the intersection of HR operations and financial compliance, requiring someone who can manage the technical backbone of employee compensation. As the Reward and Reporting Specialist at HEINEKEN Ethiopia, you will be the central figure ensuring payroll accuracy across multiple brewery sites while also monitoring legislative changes that affect pay and benefits. It suits a detail-oriented HR professional with a strong analytical mindset who enjoys working behind the scenes to keep a large organization running smoothly. In the FMCG sector, where margins and labor costs are tightly managed, your work directly impacts both employee trust and regulatory standing.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The focus on payroll supervision and legislative awareness implies the employer is seeking someone who combines technical precision with a strategic understanding of compliance risks. You are expected to be a gatekeeper of financial data, not just a processor, meaning experience with payroll systems, tax calculations, and cross-site coordination is essential. The profile sought is less about broad HR generalist skills and more about deep expertise in reward structures and reporting analytics, likely requiring familiarity with Ethiopian tax and labor laws.
How to Approach This Application
When applying, highlight specific examples where you managed payroll for a multi-location or multi-site organization, emphasizing accuracy and timeliness. Since the role involves "keeping an eye on developments in regard to legislation," demonstrate your awareness of recent changes in Ethiopian tax or social security regulations and how you have adapted processes accordingly. The employer will prioritize candidates who can show they are meticulous with data and proactive about compliance, so prepare to discuss your approach to error-checking and cross-site coordination.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for a mid-career HR professional with 3–5 years of experience in compensation, payroll, or HR analytics, ideally within a large multinational or manufacturing context. Given the specificity of the skills required and the prestige of the HEINEKEN brand, competition is likely moderate to high, with a clear preference for candidates who can hit the ground running on payroll and reporting.
Position Title: Reward and Reporting Specialist
Locations: Head Office
Application Closing Date: May 27, 2026
Job Purpose:
The role holder is to ensure the overall reward administration and implementation across all sites, point of contact for all core reporting and analytics within HR, and making sure, we are process compliant while also keeping an eye on developments in regard to legislation.
Key Responsibilities
Payroll
Payroll lead and assure all payroll information are accurate and reliable.
Supervise and control the payroll process and the submission of employee’s salaries payment on time
Make regular check on the data processing in all Breweries in the payroll and its calculation to ensure accuracy of information.
Control and follow up on the timely and qualitative delivery of the taxes/allowances declaration.
Manage all allowances and incentives and check if they are asper budget.
Prepare all breweries payroll centrally, ensure its implementation in proper way,
Manage the Payroll System
Reward and Benefit
Control Bonus/STI and severance accrual and actual payment on a timely basis
Calculate & pay separation payments in time with as per labor law
Responsible for maintenance of confidentiality of employee remuneration information
Data & Reporting
Collect, Organize, analyze and compare FTE & HC data for the periodic reporting submission on a timely basis
Ensure alignment amongst all stakeholders involved for FTE data input
Analyze and provide timely and proactive report related to Compensation
Personnel cost reporting and alignment with stakeholder
Maintain security in the storage, handling and reporting of information
Budgeting
Budget process lead including preparation execution of personnel cost budget and look after all the personnel cost execution.
Lead and manage ROFO process with all the stakeholders
Manage HR Running cost
Surveys
Gather and analyze information from remuneration surveys and market information in comparator companies.
DEI
Assess and suggests remedial actions for equal pay assessment gaps in the OpCo.
Other
Handle and solve employees’ claims related to compensation and report accordingly.
Ensure compliance and application of all HR policies/processes/rules related to employees.
Follow and update company internal regulations and policy as per new labor law, external practices and statuary changes.
Communicate actively with Operations, HR and finance to reconcile data sharing.
Ensure process compliance in all aspects of key responsibilities.
Primary interface for HR systems and HR administration.
Job Requirements
Experience and Skills
3-5 years of relevant work experience in data and business analytics.
Ability to analyze and present complex financial and non-financial data in an organized, concise manner
Strong business acumen and technical proficiency in analytics tools
Experience in FMCG sales is a strong plus
Proficient in Excel, Power BI and SAP
Education
- BSc, BA in relevant fields including Statistics, Mathematics, Accounting, Finance or any related field or equivalent.
How To Apply
Interested applicants can apply through: https://theheinekencompany-rmk.jobs.hr.cloud.sap/job-invite/158377/
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